The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1941, Page 5

ASSOCIATED PRESS e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, PICTU " | SEPT. 13, 1941. RESCUE SQU A D_Best of 33 competing groups at the Har- lan, Ky., mine center celebration was this Cornett-Lewis rescue squad. Front row: O. H. Ginn, Frank Riley and Dewey Lee; Back row: Ancil Hooks, capt.; S. D. Hurley, Garland Blair. SIDELIGHT ON THE SIDELINES—_Glee, anxiety, pleasure are all reflected on tne faces of a crowd watching the goings-on at a coal miners’ celebration in’ Harlan, Ky. W AR -WISE_puring soon- ended movement of British, Rus- sian troops into Iran, country rich in oil, Iranian Minister to U.S. Mohammed Schayesteh had some anxious moments, % V.F.W. HEA D_Max Singer of Brighton, Mass., a Boston -detective inspector and fingerprint expert, was elected mational commander at V.F.W. convention in Philadelphia. g ———— CARRYING WHITE MAN’S BURDEN—In the Philippines;: the :carabas, or . ‘buftalo, does the heavy work in the rice paddies. The Filipines have ‘/stepped up” rice preductiony AS THE BROUGH 1S BEN T T—Though she’s down, she’s not out—this Tennis Champion Louise Brough of Beverly Hills, Cal,, who spilled at the Philadelphia Cricket club during Yer winning match with Doris Hart ¢f Miami. 7.5, 6-2. DIDN'T DRESS—In everyda: R y clothes, a Portsmouth, Va., mavy worker sees Lord Mountbatten fake command of Ilustrious, sy TO ROOST-_That crowing THEY FIND THE EARTH GOOD_with wlmillve tools, farmers near Nanking, China, turn soil enriched by the meandering Yangtze river, preparing for a new rice crop. PREFERS A BLOND E_with Béfty Grable of the shapely ‘daneing legs (not. in picture) at 4 Les Angeles prize fight is- George Raft, who . used to be seen with, Norma Shearer. in. the 5 nublic nlaces. Retty was once Mys. Jackie Cooxan. comes from Red, prize-winning rooster ‘Charlotte Alquist plans to enter in New Jersey state fair at Trenton, Sept. 21-28. Nice verch. eh, Red? 3 MAN'S PEEK AT THE UNI VERSE_Almost lost in the forest of mighty instruments with which scientists expect to peer into space and at stars are two men who have been busy with completion of the Mount Palomar observatory in southern California. The great telescope awaits the 200-inch mirror now being ground at California Institute of Technology. PRISONERS® CHO1R—slowly a prison inmate choir files intc the new $250,000 church of St. Dismas—the “Good Thie("— at Dannemora, N. Y., a structure built by inmates from rocks of an abandoned prison wall, Father Ambrose Hyland supcrvising. P 3 HARVEST_gight now, Iris ‘Wilson's main mission in life is to advise everyone that there’s going to be some colossal grapes: at the eighth annual Ledi, Cal., grape fesfival. ‘WHO'S THE C lK L }‘;ll"b"—At least one h\o-‘n‘mnth-old calf at the Flemington, N. J., county fair got a_break when armerette” Mary ngi ol Skillman, N, J,, gave him a 1Mt